The first chapter of the novel Poplar: The Most Ordinary Life

Why do you like to call yourself Poplar, just the strength of Poplar that I learned from the language textbook, I think she can grow up in the desert, so strong to endure loneliness...

The poplar tree is the most common kind of tree in the northwest, and as long as there is grass, there is the shadow of the poplar tree. The poplar tree is not very particular about the living conditions, the roadside, next to the field, where there is loess, where there is her survival. She does not chase the rain, does not covet the sun, as long as she can give a little moisture on even the ground that is compacted, a section of the poplar tree will take root and sprout. As long as she moves a little space for weeds to survive, she will decorate the yellow earth and hold up a piece of green. She didn't need anyone to fertilize, she didn't need to water like a delicate lawn, as long as she didn't wield a knife and axe to cut it, give her a little loose environment, let her absorb the air of freedom, she would stand tall, she never said no to the land where she grew. She is not branched, rooted in the barren soil, and is at ease with the world, because she belongs to the grassroots.

Poplar especially likes the characteristics of poplar trees, just like their own personality, but they seem to be less strong than poplar trees.

Introduce yourself, poplar, female, born in 1987 in the year of the rabbit in the lunar calendar april birth, poplar mother has been saying to poplar, your birth time is very good, three rabbits, rabbit year rabbit moon rabbit hour, life must be very good. And Poplar in his 20s when he was bored, he also went to count his life several times, and every time he said that his fate was good, but Poplar always felt that fortune telling I was always good, but where was the fate, especially after marriage, life was so tossed, which door was good, but when she was rescued at the last moment of her life after being found by a refugee in Italy, she knew that she was really alive. Of course, these are the lives of Poplar when they grow up, and they are also the special love of God, and before that, she felt that the birthday eight characters were pure entertainment, saying that you can really live a good life.

Or go back to Poplar's life when he was a child. There is also an older sister above the poplar, the big poplar is 3 years old, and there is a younger brother below, the little poplar is 3 years old. It is very normal to have three children in a family in the countryside.

The conditions of the poplar family of five are really bad, not good to what extent, just remember what my mother often said, when I gave birth to poplar, the family only had 5 yuan, 5 yuan in 87 years, although it was also valuable, but the family's savings were 5 yuan, and it was indeed very poor. When the younger brother was born, family planning was still particularly strict, and the day after the mother gave birth to the younger brother, the family planner forcibly pulled the mother to do the sterilization operation, because the fine could not be paid, and the family planner also smashed the windows of the home and a little bit of so-called furniture (to know that there is no furniture to speak of). How cruel family planning was. In that era, my mother had never been a confinement child, and my mother was also married from Sichuan, and I was not familiar with life, which was really not easy (this is not easy poplar is also felt when I got married and had children, and when I was young, my children did not know bitterness).

Bai Yang also did some ridiculous things when he was a child, children do not understand things, curiosity is also heavy, and now whenever they get together with their families to talk, they will laugh and cry.

One of the absurdities

That will forget how old Poplar is, but I haven't read yet, everyone in the New Year plays with firecrackers, that kind of small firecrackers a big string of some that have not been fried, Poplar picked it up, guess where she put it to fry, she took the firecracker and put it on the top of the earth stove where the matchbox was fried. As soon as the firecrackers sounded, my mother was still frightened, but fortunately, she did not blow up the earth stove.

The second absurdity

This is really serious. It was also winter, and Poplar and his father and an uncle were basking in the sun. Poplar asked his father for a lighter to play, but he didn't expect his father to give it. Poplar took a lighter and actually went to light the rice pole. The rice pole was stacked around a tree, and the stack was high. Poplar opened the lighter for the first time, lit it, was afraid in his heart, and immediately extinguished it, Poplar was secretly happy in his psychology, he didn't expect the fire to be so good. Then she thought, I click again, this time let it burn bigger and then extinguish, the second time it was extinguished by the poplar, and there was a third time, this is good, the third time can not be extinguished, the fire is getting bigger and bigger, the poplar does not dare to call Daddy, until it can't extinguish the fire, the smoke is big, and it was found by Daddy's uncle, and they told people to quickly carry water to extinguish the fire. I remembered that the fire had been extinguished for a long time. Then Dad was very angry and said that he would not give me food at noon. Then the poplar will be very stubborn, do not eat do not eat, I see you can starve me a few meals, sure enough, the mother immediately called the poplar to eat as soon as the afternoon arrived. Poplar was still thinking about it, and he knew that his mother was reluctant to starve herself.

Ridiculous third

How to say poplar about this matter, my mother with three children may really be annoyed when I remember once annoyed and said to me, you go to ask for food, don't want you, only four or five years old poplar took it seriously, said, then I went to ask for food, and also took an umbrella, said to my mother, then I can't come back. Then she took the umbrella and went to hide in the bamboo garden below the courtyard, and she saw when her mother would come to look for her. Sure enough, for about two or three hours, Poplar still hid and did not go back, and then she saw her mother come out to find him, and then she ran out. Looking back now, I didn't expect that when I was a child, I was so stubborn, and it was no wonder that my life would be so bumpy when I grew up.

The fourth absurdity

Children's thoughts really don't know how to say well, and young minds can really think of anything. The thing is this, Bai Yang slept alone in the afternoon in the morning, woke up, did not see his parents, sisters and brothers, just cried loudly there, saying that his parents did not want to be themselves, took his sister and brother away, and cried alone and was sad, until his parents came back from work on the mountain. So don't leave the child alone at home, you don't know what the child will think in the brain, and don't say something to the child that shouldn't be said between adults, they will really take it seriously. Therefore, when Poplar becomes a mother herself, she will only say to her children that she loves you, and that her parents love you the most. Poplar does not want to inadvertently say a joke to hurt the young mind of the child, especially those jokes that you do not obey your parents and do not want you, children will really take it seriously, when they are young, they really do not have the ability to judge whether what you say is true or false, they will only take everything seriously.

The fifth absurdity

My mother grew vegetables for a living, and I remember that a few times Poplar also went to the vegetable market with my mother to sell vegetables. That will be a dime a handful of onions. Timid Poplar stood there and did not dare to say, others asked her, how much is an onion, her voice is small only she can hear, but everyone knows that the onion is a dime, so she dropped a dime and took a handful of onions and left. Because selling onions can make money, my sister Xiaochun will fool the poplars, we go to pick the onions ourselves, and then sell them to make money. As soon as Poplar heard that it was good, they picked a lot of green onions, and then the sister let Poplar go to the vegetable market to sell, but unfortunately the impression of Poplar felt that none of them were sold, too miserable. Then in those few days, as long as my mother said to pick some green onions, Poplar went directly to get a handful. These unsold shallots were hidden by poplars, not told their mothers.

There are many more things, and I will recall it later. These are all things that Happened before Poplar was eight years old before going to school, and it was very emotional to think of everything in the middle of the night, remembering everything in his childhood. Although I was very poor when I was a child, I also had a lot of happiness. Moms are really the best moms. Every time my mother went to the street to sell vegetables, she would bring us a loaf of bread, and then feed us three sisters and brothers to eat, and a loaf of bread was broken down and the three sisters and brothers ate one by one. I still feel very happy when I think about it.

My sister Xiaochun because I am three years older, reading earlier, and then every time the school comes back to play the role of a teacher to teach me and my brother to read, so although Poplar did not start school, but can count, add and subtract, can write, so in our family, the second and third are better than the boss, this is still thanks to the credit of the boss. There is also a small memory for this writing. Dad called the fire to cook, Poplar said I want to write, Dad said that I have not yet read to write every day, after reading if you can be so diligent, I am afraid that I can't read it. Poplar copied the words while burning the fire, although the words were not recognized, but a stroke was written accordingly, haha. When I was a child, Poplar was really diligent.

These are all when I lived in the mountains, and I didn't read the books yet. Poplar is also lucky, when he began to study preschool, the aunt had two houses in the town, they lived in a new set, the old one for the father to live, because the aunt and the father have a good relationship, free to live for the father, close to the school, until the second house demolition, and then moved back to the mountain.

Poplar, who moved to town, will then start school. That's what the next chapter will say.