In those years of junior high school, classmates who were far away from home would find a place to stay in the town every winter. Some people choose relatives' homes, and most of the classmates rent a house together, cook their own meals, and spend the winter together. In my junior year, I rented a room with three other girls in my class and shared a kitchen with my landlord. We came from different villages, and our parents brought firewood for the fire in an ox cart, rice and oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, and gathered in this small courtyard from all directions, and the scene was no different from buying a new home. Behind the house, the straw and dried branches were piled up, the bedding of several people was stacked on the kang, and the necessities of life were placed on the floor, on the stove and on the windowsill. After some busyness, the "little home" was completed. Parents told me: "Cook to watch the fire", "Get along well with your classmates", "If you don't have enough things, go home with a letter", then, they dragged the reins of the cow and drove the old cow home.
Just independent portal, everyone is a little white in life, the habit of self-care and self-reliance has not been formed at all, especially to get up early to cook. A few times, we overslept collectively, got up from the kang and ran to school in a panic, but we were still late. After two or three classes, I was so hungry that I put my chest on my back and didn't have any thoughts about class. When several people are together, often the guts will swell exponentially. That day, after taking an English evening self-study session, looking at the class schedule, the next is not very important nor very interesting physiological hygiene class, we invariably moved the crooked thoughts: breakfast did not eat, lunch fooled, is it time to go home early and eat something seriously? Several heads were put together and muttered a plan, how could they not have the courage or experience, before the plan was implemented by the young English teacher, and finally we reached the final escape plan with the excuse of "stomachache". Running all the way, it was very exciting.
The kitchen is the main battlefield of Meinuhua, because only she is the only one among the four people who can really cook, so she has the most say in cooking. We can only burn fires, cut vegetables, and do rough work that is not technical, and these jobs are disdainful of chefs. We all lowered our eyebrows and were completely reduced to burning hands. It can be seen that no matter when, only those who really have the ability have confidence.
A hot kang, there are boiling hot kang heads, there are also cold kang tips. For the sake of fairness, we implement the position rotation system in order, and we can all enjoy the favor of Kang tou, and we must also endure the small abuse of Kang. Before going to sleep, we talked about the teachers and classmates in the class and shared our little mood. There was really nothing to sleep, so I took turns singing and opened a fire concert. I remember one day after dinner, we suddenly found that the rice bag was empty. Really a child who can't live a life, never know how to check the progress bar of the rice bag. At this point, we are a little confused, tomorrow morning there is no rice under the pot, what can we do about this? There was no way but to let two classmates who were close to home go home to get it. At that time, the snow on the road was very thick, and two strong fire burners rode home on bicycles almost step by step, and then pulled back a bag of rice with a pull, and finally solved the crisis of food shortage.
That winter, four girls gathered around a stove and a fire to live a good life. The difficult third year of junior high school has also become much lighter and happier.
Nowadays, the four people who once lived together are on opposite sides of the day, accepting the polishing of the years in different places, and becoming a half-old Xu Niang with wrinkles on her face and a story in her heart. No matter how many stories there are, they can't withstand the smoke of cooking in that year, and they can't withstand the youth years of hugging and warming.