At the school gate, the team disbanded and everyone went back to their homes to look for their mothers.
"What a pity." After learning that Ma Xiaolong's house was headed to the left, Zhu Sha waved her hand: "Goodbye." She turned around and walked to the right, her single ponytail swaying.
Ma Xiaolong turned around and looked at the walls on both sides of the school gate. On the left was written 'A Centennial Plan', and on the right was 'Education Based'. The big red characters were particularly conspicuous.
Above the school gate are written "Chadian Primary School" in red letters. It's old and the paint has peeled off.
There were small stalls selling snacks, toys and stationery on the right side of the school entrance. Ma Xiaolong touched his trouser pockets and turned around to go home.
Poverty limits my consumption.
It rained a few days ago and the road surface is full of potholes. I haven't seen such a bad road surface in many years. I miss it but feel disgusted.
Ma Xiaolong's home is very close to the school. It only takes five minutes to walk. It doesn't even take one minute to sprint at full speed. There is a paper mill in the middle of such a short distance. However, the efficiency is not good and it will close down in a few years.
Remember going in and stealing paper when you were a kid?
unimportant.
A nearby household raises several goats.
I forget what grade I was in primary school. There was a passage in a text, but I only remember a general outline: ‘I went up and grabbed the goat by its horns, but it turned its head and threw me over.’
After all these years, he still remembers it.
Why? Because a ‘Xiong classmate’ played like this with the family’s goat on the way home from school. Of course, it was because he had just learned this text and imitated it.
There is another family on the roadside that raises pigeons, not for delivering messages or for fun, but simply for selling them for money.
Although there are many poor people now, it has been ten years since the reform and opening up, and there are many households with ten thousand yuan. People with money are easy to show off, and they want to eat and drink differently from others. Especially in the past few years, Hong Kong movies have entered the market, and roasted squab has become a big deal.
Try the delicacies of rich people.
Ma Xiaolong also ate roasted squab twenty years later, and it was not as delicious as roasted chicken! Not only was it more expensive, but the meat was less, so it was purely for those who had money to cook it.
There is a fork in the road ahead. Go straight ahead for 50 meters and you will see the edge of the canal, or riverside for short. I heard from the old man that there was water transportation by ship twenty years ago, but it has disappeared now. This section is 500 meters long from north to south and 50 meters long from east to west.
The rice was circled into a ring around the canal. The water level in the canal dropped and it became an entertainment place for idlers and children to play in the water and fish.
Turn left and you will find an alley with a cement board road covering the sewer, and walk another hundred meters to Xiaolong Ma's home.
Stepping on the gap where the cement board road meets, he looked at the dilapidated bungalows on the left and right sides, which were strange and familiar at the same time. In a dozen years, this place will be demolished and built into a series of buildings and commercial areas. Before he was reborn, the housing prices here reached
Around 10,000 yuan per square meter.
Now, 10,000 yuan can buy a 100-square-meter bungalow with a courtyard. For example, his home, with a house and a courtyard, exceeds 200 square meters, and 20,000 yuan should be able to buy it.
Ma Xiaolong's father is an employee of a match factory and earns a monthly salary of more than 100 yuan. He could not afford to buy a house even if he died. As for why he lives in such a big house?
It all depends on eating ‘soft rice’.
My father was born in a rural area. He has two half-brothers and a half-brother and a sister. He was too poor to take the blame since he was a child. After elementary school, he set up a family and lived alone. Although he has no ability, he is not afraid.
He is hard-working and willing to work hard. During his spare time, he would ride a tricycle to the city to deliver goods and earn some hard-earned money.
When I was 23 years old, I rode a tricycle to deliver goods to a match factory. I was attracted by my grandfather, an old employee of the match factory, and after a period of observation, I introduced my little daughter to him.
The development that followed was magical. The young man and woman looked at mung beans and got married in the next month. The next year, they had Ma Xiaolong, and the next year they had Ma Xiaofeng. They had both children, and their speed was comparable to short track speed skating. They accidentally won gold and silver medals.
Already.
Family planning? Phew! Beep beep beep——404……
The house my father lives in now is my grandfather's house, and his job is my grandfather's early retirement. The price is that my grandfather and grandma have followed him. My father is considered my son-in-law, and he will provide for my two elders in the future.
Fortunately, grandpa and grandma respected this son-in-law very much. Ma Xiaolong and Ma Xiaofeng both took their father's surname after they were born. Dad treated them as their biological parents and treated them as filial piety. Apart from being poor, the family of six was happy.
But poverty is the original sin. Although it is okay to eat enough, insufficient intake of meat, eggs, and milk is extremely unfriendly to the growing and developing horse.
Ma Xiaolong's father is 1.74 meters tall and his mother is 1.64 meters tall. However, when he becomes an adult, he is only 1.73 meters tall. The strange thing is that Ma Xiaofeng is 1.68 meters tall when he becomes an adult...
(╥╯^╰╥) I’m so sorry, who will save the little dragon who is supposed to be 1.8 meters tall?
…
The black wooden door was half open, and a yellow native dog was lying at the door. When he heard the familiar footsteps, his tail started wagging before he even got up.
"Hahaha, Lulu!" Ma Xiaolong picked up the native dog running towards him and started petting the dog frantically.
This is his guard dog, a small dog, very docile, but it will bark when it sees strangers.
Lulu worked hard and gave birth to two litters of puppies every year, bringing an income of one to two hundred yuan to the family. But in my memory, Lulu would be poisoned to death in a few years.
I don’t know which wicked and smoking bastard did this!? My mother, who is not a shrewd woman, even cursed at the door all afternoon.
Ma Xiaolong gritted his back teeth and said, "Don't let me know who you are, or you'll be fine."
"?" Lulu wagged her tail and licked his face enthusiastically.
Ma Xiaolong didn't mind being dirty either. He carried Lulu into the yard and shouted, "Grandma! Grandma!"
Ma Xiaolong's house is a typical seven-shaped bungalow. The north house has three long rooms and two living rooms, and the east house is a utility room and kitchen. There are half-meter-high cement steps under the seven-shaped eaves to raise the indoor height to prevent rain from flooding.
Already.
A dry toilet was built in the southeast corner. Under the steps in the northwest corner was a sink for washing. On the steps was a large tank filled with tap water. The tap water in this period was not polluted and could be drank directly. It was very sweet.
There is a large, thick and long bamboo pole standing under the steps outside the central house, and the antenna for receiving TV signals is tied to the top. When it is windy and rainy, the TV in the house is covered with snowflakes, so I have to go out and take a look.
Childhood Memory.
The yard is very large. A small vegetable plot was dug at the base of the south wall and some peppers and seasonal vegetables were planted. There were two trees planted on both sides of the vegetable plot, one was a jujube tree and the other was a jujube tree.
Beating dates with a bamboo pole every year is also one of the joys of childhood.
A clothesline connects the east wall and the west wall, with hand-washed clothes hanging on it. The style is very nostalgic.
"Why!"
The little old lady with short silver-gray hair came out of the kitchen, holding a bowl of shredded pickle dumplings in her hand. She ordered sesame oil and was stirring it with chopsticks.
"Come back!" Grandma smiled kindly.
Ma Xiaolong almost burst into tears. In his previous life, his grandma had been gone for more than ten years, but now she appeared in front of him alive.
If you can't cry, you can't cry. How can a man cry?
Take a breath and put Lulu down: "Grandma, what do you want to eat for lunch?"
"Eat noodles." Grandma smiled and said, "Stewed persimmon eggs, eggs, and fried fish to celebrate our little dragon entering elementary school."
"Grandma is better." Ma Xiaolong was happy, making braised noodles with tomatoes and eggs, his childhood favorite.
"elder brother!"
A little lolita wiped her hair and ran out of the West Room. She was wearing a white cheap dress and cheap slippers. Her skin was slightly dark, her face was rosy, and her big eyes were full of curiosity: "Is school fun?"
Ma Xiaofeng, six years old, his taller sister who will be 1.68 meters tall in the future.
(；′д｀)ゞMy heart is filled with frustration.
"Going to school is to learn knowledge, not to play." Ma Xiaolong took off his schoolbag and hung it around Ma Xiaofeng's neck: "I have to study all the books in it, and I have homework after school in the afternoon. I'm tired! Cherish the happy time in the last year! Next year
Your hard days are coming."
"Ah!?" Ma Xiaofeng's face collapsed and she was very confused (ー`′ー).
Grandma laughed and scolded: "You are teasing your sister again, you are acting like a monkey. Look at your dog-gnawed face. Go and wash yourself. We will eat soon."
"Hey, going to school is fun." He patted Ma Xiaofeng's head and said, "You can learn knowledge and meet many new friends. Today I met a very handsome deskmate."
"Hey~" Ma Xiaofeng didn't believe it: "Can you be as handsome as me?"
"Hmm..." Ma Xiaolong thought carefully and nodded: "Better looking than you."
"I don't believe it!" Ma Xiaofeng was unconvinced: "Dad and everyone in Mom's factory said they had never seen a child as handsome as me."
"They are just being polite, but you really believe it!"
A gust of wind blew over, causing dust to fly. Ma Xiaolong raised his hands to shield his eyes and said, "Hurry into the house. I just washed my hair and it's dirty again."
Ma Xiaofeng pouted and frowned as she followed Ma Xiaolong into the house.
As soon as he entered the house, Ma Xiaolong took the washbasin on the washstand to collect water. The wind was a bit strong today and blew all the way. When he got home, he was bitten by a dog and his face was bruised.
I washed my face and my hair by the way. I used unscented soap, locally called Yizi, which was earthy in color and had a unique sense of age.
The washstand is made of iron and painted with a layer of red paint. It has been used for a long time and the paint has peeled off a bit. There are two towels hanging on it, one with blue and yellow stripes and one with pink flowers. The blue and yellow stripes are his and the pink stripes.
The flowers belong to Ma Xiaofeng.
I washed my hair in vain, wiped it with a towel and wiped my hair with a towel. I walked to the bedroom in the west room. Ma Xiaofeng was lying on the bed and reading his textbook.
The bed is an iron frame bed, covered with two thick wooden boards spliced together, and is a 2M×1.8M double bed. He and Ma Xiaofeng have slept on this bed since they can remember. Their parents, grandpa, and grandma love them very much. It is the only bed.
Let them sleep and sleep on the kang yourself.
There are kangs in the east room and the middle bedroom. The room connecting the two kang houses has two stoves on the left and right. In winter, one stove can be used to boil water and cook in one pot, which is very warm.
He and Ma Xiaofeng could only have electric mattresses on their beds, and they often got hot while sleeping. There was no way to tell, after all, sleeping on electric mattresses in this day and age was a prestigious thing.
The love of elders comes from the limitations of the times. (??灬??)
Hearing the sound of him coming in, Ma Xiaofeng turned to look at him and was suddenly stunned.
"What's wrong?" Ma Xiaolong sat next to the bed, crossing his legs and flipping through the book.
These are all childhood memories!
"Brother, you look much better after washing your face." Ma Xiaofeng stared at his face with uncertain eyes.
"I'm good-looking." Ma Xiaolong grinned, missing one front tooth.
"Hey~" Ma Xiaofeng looked disgusted: "There are no front teeth, it doesn't look good at all."
"You're not going to be any better either." Both of them are in the period of teething, and Ma Xiaofeng's teeth are also uneven, so they can hurt each other.
"Hmph!" Ma Xiaofeng was so angry that she got up and went to the desk next to the window to get the dressing mirror. It was as big as an adult's head and oval in shape. It was surrounded by a circle of red plastic and had a seat underneath. It was mainly used by Ma Xiaofeng when Ma Xiaolong changed his teeth.
Use occasionally.
"See for yourself." Ma Xiaofeng pointed the mirror in front of Ma Xiaolong's face.
"What are you looking at..." Ma Xiaolong was stunned.
Who is this jade-faced young man in the mirror, with pink and jade-like features, picturesque features, red lips and white teeth? It seems to be me? Am I so good-looking?
Photo from top to bottom, left to right, grinning, one front tooth missing.
"..."
Ma Xiaolong was silent for three seconds, then a light bulb came on in his head: Ah! 15 points of charm.